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

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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Donne, John

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Fielding, Henry

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Barker, Clive

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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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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

43.

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

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence