Motivational Quotes

Death

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Sophocles

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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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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

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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 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

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Gide, Andre

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mitford, William

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Durrell, Lawrence