Motivational Quotes

Death

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hook, Sydney

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

William Shakespeare

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Greene, Graham

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Epicurus

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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 that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Berra, Yogi

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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

A. Sachs

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Manilius, Marcus

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

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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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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