Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Havner, Vance

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

Heidegger, Martin

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Macdonald, George

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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 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

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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