Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

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

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

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

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

10.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Marvell, Andrew

12.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

14.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

16.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Donne, John

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Hook, Sydney

22.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

24.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

25.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Havner, Vance

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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

28.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

29.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

31.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Bright, Grant M.

33.

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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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

35.

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

Stephanie Klein

36.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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

41.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

42.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

47.

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

48.

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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.