Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Manilius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

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

10.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

12.

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

A. Sachs

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

22.

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

23.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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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

28.

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

Bagnold, Enid

29.

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

Palmerston, Lord

30.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Dryden, John

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

47.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug