Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Frida Kahlo

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

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

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

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bronte, Emily

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Euripides

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous