Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Edith Sitwell

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Camus, Albert

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Horace

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Randy K. Milholland

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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