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

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Butler, Samuel

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Matt Frewer

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Life is a loss of time.

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 die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Donne, John

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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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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Sophocles

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Barker, Clive

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis