Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Bible

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

12.

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

Becht, Ben

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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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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Picabia, Francis

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Eliot, George

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

Young, Edward

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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