Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Allen, Woody

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Byron, Lord

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Woody Allen

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

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Auerbach, Red

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

10.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

13.

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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Horace

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

Craig Volk

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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 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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

33.

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

Frida Kahlo

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Ken, Thomas

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Butler, Samuel

50.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous