Motivational Quotes

Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

- Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Best Quotes about Death

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Camus, Albert

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Johnny Carson

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

David Assael

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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