Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Craig Volk

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

Bronte, Emily

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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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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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

27.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

28.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

36.

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

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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 is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

William Shakespeare

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Keats, John

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

Nepos, Cornelius

44.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.