Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Horace

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

Haracourt, Edmond

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

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 is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Fromm, Erich

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Foster, John W.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hook, Sydney

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]