Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Eliot, George

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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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

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

Hermes, Georg

33.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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 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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.