Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

'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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

11.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Picabia, Francis

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

Bhagavad Gita

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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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

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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Leonardo da Vinci