Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

13.

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

Frida Kahlo

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Donne, John

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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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Hazlitt, William

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Woody Allen

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Dickinson, Emily

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Bronte, Emily

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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.

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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.