Motivational Quotes

Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Death

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

William Shakespeare

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Dryden, John

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Gray, Thomas

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Gide, Andre

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

William Shakespeare

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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