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

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

Berra, Yogi

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Edith Sitwell

13.

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

Cocteau, Jean

14.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

16.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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.

18.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

21.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

30.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dickinson, Emily

34.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Bible

40.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

42.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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