Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Auerbach, Red

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

28.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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 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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

William Shakespeare

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A. Sachs

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Camus, Albert

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah