Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

A. Sachs

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Epicurus

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Foster, John W.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Keats, John

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.