Motivational Quotes

Death

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hubbard, Kin

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Eliot, George

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Butler, Samuel

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Montgomery, James

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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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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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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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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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Keats, John

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Mitford, William

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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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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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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Epicurus

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.