Motivational Quotes

Death

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Death

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plato

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Sophocles

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Becht, Ben