Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lowell, James Russell

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Craig Volk

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

11.

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

Young, Edward

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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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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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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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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

18.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

23.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

24.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

25.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

29.

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

30.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

31.

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

Johnny Carson

32.

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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

34.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

39.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

40.

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

41.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

42.

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

Bertolt Brecht

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

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

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

A. Sachs

46.

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

47.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

50.

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