Motivational Quotes

Death

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Death

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Dryden, John

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Foster, John W.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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

Palmerston, Lord

13.

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

Bible

15.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

16.

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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

20.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Woody Allen

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

25.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

39.

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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.