Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horace

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

32.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bacon, Francis

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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