Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lucan, F. L.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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]

Bible

11.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

15.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

21.

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

Forster, Edward M.

22.

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.

23.

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

Picabia, Francis

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Camus, Albert

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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

34.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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

36.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Dryden, John

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

44.

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