Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Young, Edward

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

Bible

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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 is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

La Fontaine, Jean 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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.