Motivational Quotes

Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Charles II

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

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

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

Farber, Dave

10.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

11.

'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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Plato

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Bible

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

27.

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

Montgomery, James

28.

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

29.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

35.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

38.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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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

43.

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

44.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

45.

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.