Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Berra, Yogi

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Young, Edward

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

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

Macdonald, George

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Barker, Clive

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Randy K. Milholland

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

William Shakespeare

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Bertolt Brecht

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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 dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

A. Sachs

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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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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.