Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

- Hope, James Barron

Best Quotes about Death

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dryden, John

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

Chandler, Raymond

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Palmerston, Lord

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Allen, Woody

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Montgomery, James

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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 begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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