Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mitford, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Milton, John

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

13.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Euripides

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

28.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnny Carson

30.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Barker, Clive

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Lucan, F. L.

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Woody Allen

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.