Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Mann, Thomas

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Woody Allen

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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 warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Euripides

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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