Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Craig Volk

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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.

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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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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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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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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Byron, Lord

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Eliot, George

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

Plato

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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 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 doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Berger, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb