Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Hermes, Georg

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Eliot, George

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

10.

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

11.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Plato

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

34.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

Allen, Woody

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Auerbach, Red

48.

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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas