Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Canetti, Elias

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sophocles

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Macdonald, George

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

Woody Allen

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Young, Edward

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel