Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auden, W. H.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Farber, Dave

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

12.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Pamela Ribon

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

34.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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 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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Duffecy, James

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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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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'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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben