Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Mann, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

12.

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

13.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

19.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

21.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

23.

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

Becht, Ben

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

Euripides

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Manilius, Marcus

28.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

29.

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

30.

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

32.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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

Barker, Clive

37.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

38.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

44.

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

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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 dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

49.

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

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

Horace