Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Auden, W. H.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keats, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Young, Edward

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Macdonald, George

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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

28.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Horace

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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 was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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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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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus