Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Donne, John

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

10.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Euripides

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Young, Edward

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Woody Allen

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Stephanie Klein

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Plato

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Bryant, William C.

43.

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

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Macdonald, George

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson