Motivational Quotes

Death

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

- Palmerston, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

A. Sachs

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

Cocteau, Jean

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Epictetus

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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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

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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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

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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

Auerbach, Red

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bible

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Craig Volk

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

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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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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