Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hermes, Georg

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

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

11.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

13.

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

14.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

22.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

23.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

24.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Hook, Sydney

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

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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

34.

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.

35.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

36.

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

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

George Burns

39.

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

Canetti, Elias

40.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

41.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

42.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

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

Dryden, John

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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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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

46.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

47.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.