Motivational Quotes

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Craig Volk

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

16.

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

Cocteau, Jean

17.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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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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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

29.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

30.

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

Bible

32.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

35.

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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

37.

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

Horace

38.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Becht, Ben

42.

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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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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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

45.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

46.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.