Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Woody Allen

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

Euripides

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Auerbach, Red

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

12.

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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Butler, Samuel

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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

24.

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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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

32.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

33.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

34.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Canetti, Elias

38.

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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Charles II

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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 is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord