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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Edith Sitwell

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epicurus

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

Woody Allen

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

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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 simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bronte, Emily

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.