Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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

Craig Volk

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

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

19.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

21.

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

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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

Epicurus

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Dryden, John

28.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

30.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

33.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Camus, Albert

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

41.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Cocteau, Jean

44.

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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Keats, John

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

49.

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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus