Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hoffer, Eric

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Farber, Dave

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Woody Allen

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Woody Allen

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Foster, John W.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Gide, Andre

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.