Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Aaron McGruder

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Hazlitt, William

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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'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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.