Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Eliot, George

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

24.

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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Epicurus

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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