Motivational Quotes

Death

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

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

'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

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

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

Hermes, Georg

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Edith Sitwell

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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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

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

Mitford, William

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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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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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Fromm, Erich

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Matt Frewer

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

William Shakespeare

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.