Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Charles II

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

Donne, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

10.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

A. Sachs

25.

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

Bryant, William C.

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

28.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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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

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

36.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

37.

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

Dryden, John

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.