Motivational Quotes

Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gide, Andre

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Eliot, George

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Auden, W. H.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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 pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Forster, Edward M.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Milton, John

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Dryden, John

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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

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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

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Sophocles

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Woody Allen