Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Aurelius, Marcus

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

14.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

16.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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 sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

28.

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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

30.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Duffecy, James

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Butler, Samuel

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas