Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Aaron McGruder

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Edward

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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

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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

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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.