Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Epicurus

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Camus, Albert

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Fielding, Henry

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hermes, Georg

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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