Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Pamela Ribon

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

William Shakespeare

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Palmerston, Lord

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

A. Sachs

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Matt Frewer

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George