Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cocteau, Jean

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Plato

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

28.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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'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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

38.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bronte, Emily

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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