Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cocteau, Jean

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Plato

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

10.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

11.

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

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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.

15.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

16.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

17.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

18.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

21.

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

Matt Frewer

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

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

Bronte, Emily

29.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

30.

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

31.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

32.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

33.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

34.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

39.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

40.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

42.

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

43.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

45.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

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

48.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

49.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

50.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De