Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Carson, Johnny

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Macdonald, George

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

Foster, John W.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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 woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hook, Sydney

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bronte, Emily

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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

49.

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

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