Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Heidegger, Martin

Best Quotes about Death

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Heidegger, Martin

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Woody Allen

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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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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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth