Motivational Quotes

Death

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

David Assael

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

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

Euripides

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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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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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 does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plato

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

43.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Keats, John

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage