Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Bible

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Craig Volk

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

11.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Matt Frewer

13.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Johnny Carson

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Leonardo da Vinci

25.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

46.

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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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