Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Gray, Thomas

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

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Epicurus

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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

Craig Volk

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Carson, Johnny

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Bryant, William C.

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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