Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

- Man, Paul De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Young, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

A. Sachs

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

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

Milton, John

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah