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

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

18.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

22.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

25.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

28.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

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

Pamela Ribon

42.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

44.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marvell, Andrew

49.

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 nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus