Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Death

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ken, Thomas

10.

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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Fromm, Erich

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Burns

28.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

33.

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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Euripides

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich