Motivational Quotes

Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

12.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

28.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

38.

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

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

40.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

47.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene