Motivational Quotes

Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Keats, John

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Eliot, George

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

John Scalzi

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider