Motivational Quotes

Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Haracourt, Edmond

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Durrell, Lawrence

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

10.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

13.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

14.

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

Duffecy, James

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

'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

23.

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.

24.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

Ken, Thomas

28.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

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

Frida Kahlo

33.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

34.

'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

35.

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

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Picabia, Francis

38.

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

Woody Allen

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Bible

44.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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