Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

William Shakespeare

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Epicurus

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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]

Bible

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

Forster, Edward M.

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Euripides

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.