Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Hendrix, Jimi

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Horace

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Gide, Andre

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

Plato

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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.

Steve Jobs

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Woody Allen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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 life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider