Motivational Quotes

Death

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Becht, Ben

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

11.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Woody Allen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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 dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Canetti, Elias

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

37.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John Scalzi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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