Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Horace

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Marvell, Andrew

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Plato

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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.

Diderot, Denis

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Epicurus

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.