Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

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

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Plato

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Keats, John

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Woody Allen

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Epicurus

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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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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lee, Nathaniel

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph