Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Woody Allen

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.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

10.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

11.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

12.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Horace

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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

15.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

45.

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

Ann Radcliffe

46.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

49.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

50.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George