Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Guthrie, Arlo

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Lucan, F. L.

13.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

14.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

18.

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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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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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

21.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

22.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bible

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Matt Frewer

40.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

41.

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 jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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'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

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bhagavad Gita

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.