Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Barker, Clive

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Donne, John

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A. Sachs

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Havner, Vance

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Johnny Carson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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 warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert