Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Publilius Syrus

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Horace

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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