Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epicurus

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Woody Allen

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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 belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Diderot, Denis

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Havner, Vance

23.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

24.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

28.

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

Frost, Robert

29.

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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Charles II

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.