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

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

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

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Havner, Vance

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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

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

Young, Edward

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

William Shakespeare

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

30.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

35.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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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 always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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 you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi