Motivational Quotes

Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Foster, John W.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

John Scalzi

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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato