Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

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

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Epicurus

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

10.

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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Ann Radcliffe

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Frida Kahlo

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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

22.

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.

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

25.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Matt Frewer

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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

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

Moody, Dwight L.