Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hermes, Georg

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

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

Butler, Samuel

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Camus, Albert

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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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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

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

Allen, Woody

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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