Motivational Quotes

Death

He has gone over to the majority.

- Petronius

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Gide, Andre

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

16.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

21.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

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

Horace

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

24.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thrale, Hester i

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Allen, Woody

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Havner, Vance

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

45.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

William Shakespeare

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

48.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Dryden, John

50.

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