Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Ann Radcliffe

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Johnny Carson

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Becht, Ben

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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.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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.

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Camus, Albert

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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 am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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.