Motivational Quotes

Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Death

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Pamela Ribon

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

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

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

10.

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

11.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

12.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

15.

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

Keats, John

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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

17.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

21.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Edith Sitwell

31.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

36.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

38.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

43.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

48.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

49.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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