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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

'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

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

Stephanie Klein

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

Milton, John

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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 fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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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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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

34.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

Barker, Clive

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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 can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman