Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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.

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

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Manilius, Marcus

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.

Philip II

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Canetti, Elias

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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