Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Milton, John

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

George Burns

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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

Epicurus

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