Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

Woody Allen

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keats, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Edward

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

31.

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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Epicurus

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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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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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug