Motivational Quotes

Death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Duffecy, James

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Butler, Samuel

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eliot, George

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia