Motivational Quotes

Death

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Death

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Butler, Samuel

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

'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

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

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.

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Randy K. Milholland

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Woody Allen

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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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

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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