Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Bayly, Joseph

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.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Randy K. Milholland

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

11.

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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

14.

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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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

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Greene, Graham

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Kin

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Frida Kahlo

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Plato

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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 delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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