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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Matt Frewer

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

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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 natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Gide, Andre

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Euripides

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

Montgomery, James

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

William Shakespeare

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

Craig Volk

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard