Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Camus, Albert

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

Duffecy, James

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Greene, Graham

14.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

15.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

19.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

20.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

21.

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

Johnny Carson

22.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Woody Allen

25.

'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

26.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

27.

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

Bible

28.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Manilius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

39.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

44.

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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

47.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

49.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

50.

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