Motivational Quotes

Death

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Death

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Young, Edward

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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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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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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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Matt Frewer

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George