Motivational Quotes

Death

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Death

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Farber, Dave

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Ellis, Alice 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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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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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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horace

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Frida Kahlo

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John