Motivational Quotes

Death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

10.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

14.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

18.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

23.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

28.

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

29.

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

Epicurus

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

34.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

35.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

36.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

37.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chandler, Raymond

40.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

41.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

42.

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

Montgomery, James

43.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

44.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

45.

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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

49.

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

50.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William