Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fielding, Henry

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

'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

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

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Byron, Lord

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Euripides

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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