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

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

Frida Kahlo

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Woody Allen

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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]

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11.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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12.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

13.

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

Bronte, Emily

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gide, Andre

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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

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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.

Horace

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Gray, Thomas

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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