Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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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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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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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Havner, Vance

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

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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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

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

Canetti, Elias