Motivational Quotes

Death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cocteau, Jean

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

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

Duffecy, James

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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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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 the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Butler, Samuel

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Craig Volk

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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

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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

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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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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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He would make a lovely corpse.