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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Epictetus

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

William Shakespeare

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bacon, Francis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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

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

Gide, Andre