Motivational Quotes

Death

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Death

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Camus, Albert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Ken, Thomas

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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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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

Craig Volk

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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 last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

A. Sachs

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James