Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dryden, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

David Assael

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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.

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Montgomery, James

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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