Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Duffecy, James

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

10.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

16.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Woody Allen

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Heidegger, Martin

25.

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

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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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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

29.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

30.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

42.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

45.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

46.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Publilius Syrus

49.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Auerbach, Red