Motivational Quotes

Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bagnold, Enid

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Auden, W. H.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Macdonald, George

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Horace

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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 want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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