Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Carson, Johnny

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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.

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.