Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

10.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

11.

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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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'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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

16.

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

17.

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Allen, Woody

24.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Camus, Albert

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Johnny Carson

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

40.

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 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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

43.

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

Pamela Ribon

45.

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

46.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Allen, Woody

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren