Motivational Quotes

Death

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Marvell, Andrew

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

10.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

11.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

14.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

18.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

19.

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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Barker, Clive

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

Eliot, George

23.

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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

26.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

34.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

44.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus