Motivational Quotes

Death

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Gide, Andre

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Berra, Yogi

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

13.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Canetti, Elias

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bible

25.

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

Woody Allen

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Keats, John

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

39.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Dryden, John

41.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

49.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.