Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Guthrie, Arlo

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Foster, John W.

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

21.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

33.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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