Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Fielding, Henry

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Montgomery, James

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

25.

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

Euripides

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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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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

34.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Stephanie Klein

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hazlitt, William

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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]

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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