Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Craig Volk

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Bible

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

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

10.

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

11.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lucan, F. L.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bertolt Brecht

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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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

49.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert