Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Foster, John W.

Best Quotes about Death

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Plato

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Euripides

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cocteau, Jean

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.