Motivational Quotes

Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about 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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Stephanie Klein

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

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

Montgomery, James

12.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

29.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bacon, Francis

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.