Motivational Quotes

Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

11.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

14.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

15.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

18.

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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

22.

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

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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

28.

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

John Scalzi

29.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

31.

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

32.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

34.

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

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

39.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

42.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

43.

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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

46.

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

Pamela Ribon

47.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

48.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.