Motivational Quotes

Death

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

Donne, John

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Diderot, Denis

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

John Scalzi

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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 the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Horace

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg