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 would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Foster, John W.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Gide, Andre

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

David Assael

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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 dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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 the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Horace

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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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