Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Craig Volk

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

18.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

19.

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

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

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

John Scalzi

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

25.

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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Johnny Carson

43.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

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

Plato

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.