Motivational Quotes

Death

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Carson, Johnny

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Ken, Thomas

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Becht, Ben

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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!