Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Mann, Thomas

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

10.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Young, Edward

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Craig Volk

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, 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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Macdonald, George

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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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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

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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

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.