Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Camus, Albert

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

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

Craig Volk

11.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

16.

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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

29.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

31.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.