Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Bertolt Brecht

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fielding, Henry

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Horace

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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

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Hook, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

30.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ellis, Alice 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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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'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

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

Auden, W. H.

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas