Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Craig Volk

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

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

John Scalzi

10.

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

11.

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

Randy K. Milholland

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

14.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

22.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

26.

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

Miller, Joaquin

27.

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

Foster, John W.

28.

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

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

Farber, Dave

30.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

32.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

34.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

40.

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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

43.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

45.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

William Shakespeare

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Auden, W. H.

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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