Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

Dryden, John

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

Berra, Yogi

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

34.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Edith Sitwell

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

41.

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

Bible

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Epicurus

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor