Motivational Quotes

Death

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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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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

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

Horace

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Auden, W. H.

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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 always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Mann, Thomas

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Bible

45.

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

Ken, Thomas

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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.

49.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gray, Thomas