Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Butler, Samuel

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 is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aaron McGruder

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Barker, Clive

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Canetti, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Edith Sitwell

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert