Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Lucan, F. L.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

11.

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Montgomery, James

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Sophocles

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bacon, Francis

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Donne, John

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craig Volk

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