Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Publilius Syrus

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Charles II

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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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

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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 grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

49.

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

Bible

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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