Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Death

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Belloc, Hilaire

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Pamela Ribon

11.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Horace

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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've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Plato

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis