Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- A. Sachs

Best Quotes about Death

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

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Horace

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Heidegger, Martin

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

10.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

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

Lucan, F. L.

15.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

16.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Luther, Martin

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

24.

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

25.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Byron, Lord

29.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Bryant, William C.

32.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

33.

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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

41.

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

42.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He would make a lovely corpse.