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

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Young, Edward

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Euripides

10.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

12.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

18.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

19.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

20.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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

25.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

28.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Belloc, Hilaire

31.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Donne, John

36.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

40.

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

Bryant, William C.

41.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Keats, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.