Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

20.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Gide, Andre

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Butler, Samuel

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mann, Thomas

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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

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns