Motivational Quotes

Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

10.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

16.

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

17.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Mitford, William

29.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

31.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

32.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

33.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

41.

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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Woody Allen

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

Fielding, Henry