Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Carson, Johnny

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Sophocles

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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Publilius Syrus

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

William Shakespeare

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Plato

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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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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Milton, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham