Motivational Quotes

Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

- Hope, James Barron

Best Quotes about Death

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

Manilius, Marcus

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Burns

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

'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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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.

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Craig Volk

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gide, Andre

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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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