Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dickinson, Emily

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Palmerston, Lord

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Young, Edward

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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Publilius Syrus

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Marvell, Andrew

44.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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.