Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

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

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bayly, Joseph

25.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Barker, Clive

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

41.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

47.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.