Motivational Quotes

Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Greene, Graham

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

Addison, Joseph

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

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Havner, Vance

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bright, Grant M.

20.

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Marvell, Andrew

24.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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

Horace

40.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Plato

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Dryden, John