Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

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

Stephanie Klein

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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 pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Keats, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William