Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Epictetus

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

13.

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

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stephanie Klein

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II