Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Greene, Graham

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

11.

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

Bright, Grant M.

12.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Picabia, Francis

15.

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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Berra, Yogi

28.

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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

32.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

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.

36.

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

Charles II

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

39.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

40.

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

41.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Publilius Syrus