Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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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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

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert