Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Lee, Nathaniel

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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.

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

Manilius, Marcus

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

10.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

20.

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

Woody Allen

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

Eliot, George

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

28.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

33.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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 guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Woody Allen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Plato

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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