Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Foster, John W.

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

Matt Frewer

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ann Radcliffe

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

29.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

30.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Greene, Graham

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Eliot, George

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

Byron, Lord

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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

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?