Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Edith Sitwell

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Dryden, John

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

10.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

13.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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.

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Lucan, F. L.

27.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.