Motivational Quotes

Death

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Bayly, Joseph

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

18.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

22.

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

Darrow, Clarence

23.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

26.

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

Foster, John W.

27.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

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

Manilius, Marcus

31.

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

Forster, Edward M.

32.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

33.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stephanie Klein

40.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

45.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

49.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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