Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about 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

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Hubbard, Kin

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

William Shakespeare

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

Craig Volk

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woody Allen

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare