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

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hook, Sydney

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Allen, Woody

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

10.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

13.

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

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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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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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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

17.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Gide, Andre

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

26.

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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, 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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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

34.

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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Horace

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Barker, Clive

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

44.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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

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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