Motivational Quotes

Death

A useless life is an early death.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Cocteau, Jean

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Bronte, Emily

10.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

11.

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

12.

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

Epicurus

13.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Woody Allen

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

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.

18.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

19.

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

Craig Volk

20.

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

21.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

25.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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

35.

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

39.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

42.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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

44.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

48.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

49.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

50.

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