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

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

A. Sachs

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

Barker, Clive

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

John Scalzi

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

10.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

11.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Eliot, George

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

15.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

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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

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

David Assael

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

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

34.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

41.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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

Butler, Samuel