Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Death

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Johnny Carson

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gray, Thomas

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

32.

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.

33.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Canetti, Elias

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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 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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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Fielding, Henry

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb