Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Craig Volk

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

10.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

13.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

14.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

15.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Horace

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

19.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

24.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

25.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

26.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

33.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

34.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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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 words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Woody Allen

49.

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De