Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Plato

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Stephanie Klein

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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Epicurus

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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

27.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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