Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Keats, John

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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 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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S�ren

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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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

39.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Pamela Ribon

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