Motivational Quotes

Death

We are all dead men on leave.

- Levine, Eugene

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frost, Robert

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

10.

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

Allen, Woody

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

28.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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

32.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Fielding, Henry

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Berra, Yogi

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