Motivational Quotes

Death

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Gide, Andre

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

Young, Edward

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

Allen, Woody

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Berra, Yogi

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Plato

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

25.

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

Edith Sitwell

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

34.

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Epicurus

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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 useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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