Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Death

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

Bayly, Joseph

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Woody Allen

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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 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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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel