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

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

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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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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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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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

22.

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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Oscar Wilde

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

42.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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

46.

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.

47.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.