Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Charles II

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

Woody Allen

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

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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

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Woody Allen

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Craig Volk

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Manilius, Marcus

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Eliot, George