Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Forster, Edward M.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Matt Frewer

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Beaumont, Francis

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Heidegger, Martin

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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 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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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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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Allen, Woody

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Canetti, Elias

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.