Motivational Quotes

Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

12.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

13.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

18.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

20.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

21.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

22.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

23.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

25.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

26.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

29.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

30.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

31.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

37.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

39.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

40.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

41.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

42.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

43.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

44.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

45.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

49.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De