Motivational Quotes

Death

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Camus, Albert

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

11.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

12.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

18.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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

25.

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

Macdonald, George

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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

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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

32.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Havner, Vance

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John