Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fromm, Erich

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Luther, Martin

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

Randy K. Milholland

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bible

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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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

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

27.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Barker, Clive

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Duffecy, James

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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