Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

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

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Duffecy, James

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

10.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

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

Woody Allen

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

19.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Greene, Graham

25.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

28.

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

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

30.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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

32.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

33.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

46.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!