Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Woody Allen

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Woody Allen

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare