Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

11.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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.

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

Sophocles

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

16.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Duffecy, James

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

43.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon