Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

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

Foster, John W.

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

Butler, Samuel

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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.

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

18.

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

19.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

20.

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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bryant, William C.

24.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

25.

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

Auerbach, Red

26.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Euripides

29.

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

30.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

40.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

42.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

45.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus