Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Donne, John

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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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

32.

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

Becht, Ben

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah