Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Havner, Vance

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

Heidegger, Martin

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Stephanie Klein

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Manilius, Marcus

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

23.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Pamela Ribon

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

28.

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

Bible

29.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

32.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Mann, Thomas

34.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

35.

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

Gide, Andre

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'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

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

42.

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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Keats, John

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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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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

49.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Belloc, Hilaire