Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Eliot, George

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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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

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

39.

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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

43.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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