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

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

Eliot, George

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dryden, John

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

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

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

12.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

18.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Luther, Martin

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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

27.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

28.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

31.

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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

34.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

38.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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.

43.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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.

48.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett