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

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Greene, Graham

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

10.

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

Forster, Edward M.

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

13.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

14.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

'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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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

17.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

18.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

19.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Woody Allen

24.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

37.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Bible

40.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

46.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Allen, Woody

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

49.

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

50.

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