Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bible

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

Lucan, F. L.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

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

Donne, John

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

11.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Dryden, John

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Macdonald, George

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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 warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Epictetus

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hermes, Georg

49.

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 feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug