Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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.

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 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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

Gide, Andre

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Plato

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

40.

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

Woody Allen

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

44.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Heidegger, Martin

49.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

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