Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

Palmerston, Lord

11.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

12.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

19.

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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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

21.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

25.

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

George Burns

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

29.

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

Bronte, Emily

30.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

32.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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