Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

George Burns

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Epicurus

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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.

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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

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Horace

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

A. Sachs

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

Greene, Graham

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Macdonald, George

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.