Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Greene, Graham

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Euripides

12.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

15.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

16.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

39.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

40.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

41.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Epicurus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles