Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Byron, Lord

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Epicurus

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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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 stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Plato

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor