Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Hamilton, Hugh

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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 king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

24.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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.