Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Pamela Ribon

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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 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

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.