Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

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

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

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

William Shakespeare

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Craig Volk

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Greene, Graham

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.