Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Plato

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Donne, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Johnny Carson

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Cocteau, Jean