Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Gide, Andre

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Plato

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare