Motivational Quotes

Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Horace

12.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hazlitt, William

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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 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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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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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

41.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Plato

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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