Motivational Quotes

Death

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

- Becht, Ben

Best Quotes about Death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Stephanie Klein

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Plato

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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

28.

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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Jefferson, Joseph

31.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Eliot, George

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

39.

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

Bright, Grant M.

40.

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

Allen, Woody

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Fromm, Erich

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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