Motivational Quotes

Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Woody Allen

10.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

11.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

14.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

15.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

16.

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

Havner, Vance

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Bayly, Joseph

21.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

22.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

23.

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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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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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 last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Thrale, Hester i

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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

36.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

47.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

48.

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

49.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh