Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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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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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

31.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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