Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Heidegger, Martin

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Hazlitt, William

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ann Radcliffe

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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 the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Hook, Sydney

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb