Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Greene, Graham

10.

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

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

13.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

18.

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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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

20.

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

21.

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

Keats, John

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Edith Sitwell

24.

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

Bayly, Joseph

25.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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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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

39.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Oscar Wilde

42.

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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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

46.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

47.

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

Woody Allen

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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