Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

Stephanie Klein

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Beaumont, Francis

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Young, Edward

10.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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]

Bible

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Luther, Martin

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Eliot, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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]

Bible

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.