Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

10.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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

Horace

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

14.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

15.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

17.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

25.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Fielding, Henry

31.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Craig Volk

35.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

36.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

38.

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

Epicurus

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

41.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

43.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

44.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

45.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

46.

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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

Butler, Samuel