Motivational Quotes

Death

These have not the hope to die.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Death

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Camus, Albert

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

10.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

11.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

16.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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'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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bayly, Joseph

37.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

42.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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.