Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Buffett, Jimmy

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Sophocles

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Woody Allen

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

24.

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

David Assael

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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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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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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

28.

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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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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]

Bible

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Bible

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

Havner, Vance

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Berra, Yogi

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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.

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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.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek