Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

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

Craig Volk

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

13.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

14.

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Plato

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

27.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Woody Allen

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Allen, Woody

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus