Motivational Quotes

Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Craig Volk

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

18.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Bible

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bronte, Emily

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

32.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

33.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

35.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Keats, John

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

Hook, Sydney

40.

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

41.

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

Euripides

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

43.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De