Motivational Quotes

Death

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

Foster, John W.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Epicurus

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Woody Allen

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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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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

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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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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

27.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

37.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

39.

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

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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.