Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Horace

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Charles II

16.

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

Woody Allen

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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 more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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 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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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

41.

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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.