Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

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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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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 not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

33.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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