Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Eliot, George

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bronte, Emily

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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 the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

19.

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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Gide, Andre

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fielding, Henry

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.