Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Death

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Manilius, Marcus

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dryden, John

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

17.

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.

18.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, 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 we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De