Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Woody Allen

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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]

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

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

Heidegger, Martin

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

27.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

30.

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

31.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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

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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

34.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Montgomery, James

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Macdonald, George

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

46.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Becht, Ben

49.

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

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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