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

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

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Allen, Woody

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

24.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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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

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

Sophocles

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

Butler, Samuel

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William