Motivational Quotes

Death

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.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Allen, Woody

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

Beaumont, Francis

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

17.

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

Frida Kahlo

18.

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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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]

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

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26.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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]

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28.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Milton, John

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

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40.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

44.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The fear of death is worse than death.