Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Horace

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

11.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

27.

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

29.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

30.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

42.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

43.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

44.

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

45.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bright, Grant M.