Motivational Quotes

Death

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Lowell, James Russell

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

11.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

12.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Epicurus

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

19.

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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnny Carson

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

William Shakespeare

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hazlitt, William

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

42.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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