Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

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

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

Plato

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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.

Mitford, William

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Publilius Syrus

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Macdonald, George

32.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Fielding, Henry

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

48.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

John Scalzi

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht