Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Woody Allen

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

Mitford, William

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Plato

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Pamela Ribon

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eliot, George

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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