Motivational Quotes

Death

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

- Lee, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Macdonald, George

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Plato

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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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