Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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.

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

10.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

11.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

12.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Beaumont, Francis

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

25.

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

Craig Volk

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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

29.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

30.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

32.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

33.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

34.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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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 am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Foster, John W.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich