Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Camus, Albert

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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.

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

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

Euripides

12.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

17.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Auerbach, Red

20.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

26.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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 Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Epicurus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

43.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William