Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Bronte, Emily

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

'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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

11.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

12.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

13.

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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

16.

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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

18.

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

Bible

19.

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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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

21.

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

22.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Dryden, John

24.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

25.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craig Volk

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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

37.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

40.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Havner, Vance

42.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

43.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

45.

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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

48.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

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

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth