Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epicurus

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Fromm, Erich

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

10.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

11.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

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

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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

15.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

16.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

17.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

Ken, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

23.

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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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

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

28.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

29.

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.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

32.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

36.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

42.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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