Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epictetus

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Duffecy, James

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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.

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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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 is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Manilius, Marcus

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.