Motivational Quotes

Death

'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

Best Quotes about Death

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

George Burns

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

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plato

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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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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Canetti, Elias

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Bryant, William C.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dryden, John

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.