Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Young, Edward

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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

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

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

13.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Duffecy, James

32.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

37.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

41.

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

Cocteau, Jean

42.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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