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

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Eliot, George

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

Canetti, Elias

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fromm, Erich

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dryden, John

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Epicurus

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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