Motivational Quotes

Death

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

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

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Donne, John

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

15.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

16.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Allen, Woody

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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

34.

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

Duffecy, James

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Woody Allen

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.