Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

John Scalzi

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Bertolt Brecht

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De