Motivational Quotes

Death

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

- Mitford, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Edith Sitwell

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

George Burns

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Plato

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Bertolt Brecht

11.

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Palmerston, Lord

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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 great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

30.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

William Shakespeare

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Greene, Graham

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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