Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Picabia, Francis

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hoffer, Eric

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

11.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

David Assael

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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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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22.

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

Woody Allen

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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

Frida Kahlo

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Pamela Ribon

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

46.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George