Motivational Quotes

Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Frida Kahlo

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Einstein, Albert

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

10.

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

Duffecy, James

11.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

13.

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

Luther, Martin

14.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

15.

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

16.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

19.

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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Woody Allen

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

28.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

29.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Horace

32.

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

33.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

34.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

36.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

38.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Dryden, John

47.

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

Barker, Clive

48.

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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.