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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Craig Volk

10.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

11.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Charles II

13.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

14.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

17.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

18.

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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

21.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

23.

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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

26.

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

Miller, Joaquin

27.

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

28.

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 are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

30.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Bright, Grant M.

34.

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

Epicurus

35.

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.

36.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

39.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

41.

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.

42.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

49.

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

Horace