Motivational Quotes

Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Duffecy, James

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

A. Sachs

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Foster, John W.

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Canetti, Elias

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Craig Volk

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gray, Thomas

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.