Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Montgomery, James

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

Milton, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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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