Motivational Quotes

Death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

13.

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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Epicurus

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

36.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

43.

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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.