Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Marvell, Andrew

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

11.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

14.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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

17.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

18.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

19.

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

George Burns

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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

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

26.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Montgomery, James

29.

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

Bible

30.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

31.

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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

33.

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

34.

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

Cocteau, Jean

35.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Epicurus

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Life is a loss of time.