Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Camus, Albert

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Butler, Samuel

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

John Scalzi

15.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Aaron McGruder

18.

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.

19.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

21.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

A. Sachs

30.

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

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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

32.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

33.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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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'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

37.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

38.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

42.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

43.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

47.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

48.

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

49.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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