Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Charles II

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Young, Edward

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bronte, Emily

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Craig Volk

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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

36.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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?