Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Berra, Yogi

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pamela Ribon

10.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Mann, Thomas

33.

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

Woody Allen

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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 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

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Craig Volk

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

Belloc, Hilaire