Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Berra, Yogi

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mitford, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Foster, John W.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bible

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Craig Volk

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard