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

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

Matt Frewer

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

'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

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

Bright, Grant M.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Picabia, Francis

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Lawrence, D. H.

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

Plato

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

Donne, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Bhagavad Gita

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Heidegger, Martin

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Fromm, Erich