Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nepos, Cornelius

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Mann, Thomas

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Woody Allen