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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Milton, John

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Allen, Woody

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

Butler, Samuel

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

'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

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Carson, Johnny

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Matt Frewer

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.