Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Plato

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

12.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

13.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

15.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

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.

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

23.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

24.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

25.

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]

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26.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Marvell, Andrew

29.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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

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31.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

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34.

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

35.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

36.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

37.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

38.

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

39.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

40.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

42.

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

43.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

45.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Woody Allen

48.

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

50.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene