Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Heidegger, Martin

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Dryden, John

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Ken, Thomas

11.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

19.

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

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

30.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

34.

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

Bayly, Joseph

36.

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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Keats, John

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Craig Volk

44.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.