Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

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

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Miller, Joaquin

17.

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

18.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

19.

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

Farber, Dave

20.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

21.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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 may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

30.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

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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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

34.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

35.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

William Shakespeare

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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

42.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

46.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

48.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

49.

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

Macdonald, George

50.

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