Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Woody Allen

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Horace

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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

Macdonald, George

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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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 death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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