Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

11.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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

13.

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

Pamela Ribon

14.

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

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Allen, Woody

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.