Motivational Quotes

Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gray, Thomas

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Milton, John

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Macdonald, George

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Frida Kahlo

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hook, Sydney

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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

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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.