Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Gide, Andre

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Darrow, Clarence

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Plato

10.

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

Becht, Ben

11.

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

12.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Allen, Woody

18.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

19.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

21.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

22.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

28.

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

Bronte, Emily

29.

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

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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

31.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

33.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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'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

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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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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

42.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Eliot, George

44.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

45.

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

46.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.