Motivational Quotes

Death

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Sophocles

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Duffecy, James

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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

14.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

20.

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

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

23.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

27.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

31.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

34.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Hoffer, Eric

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

44.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus