Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Young, Edward

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Hoffer, Eric

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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 fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Donne, John