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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnny Carson

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Becht, Ben

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Auden, W. H.

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Euripides

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Plato

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

George Burns