Motivational Quotes

Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Craig Volk

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

10.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

11.

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

John Scalzi

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Canetti, Elias

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

18.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

44.

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

Foster, John W.

45.

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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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

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

Bible

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]