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

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

Plato

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

11.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

William Shakespeare

15.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Mitford, William

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

Bible

21.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

Montgomery, James

24.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Plato

27.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

28.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

29.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

David Assael

38.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

41.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

42.

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

43.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Epicurus

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