Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Macdonald, George

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Milton, John

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montgomery, James

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

Charles II

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Euripides

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Plato

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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

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Berra, Yogi

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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