Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Macdonald, George

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Edith Sitwell

'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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

Craig Volk

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Eliot, George

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

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

Woody Allen

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Carson, Johnny

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Sophocles

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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