Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Charles II

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

Havner, Vance

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

Oscar Wilde

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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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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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keats, John

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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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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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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

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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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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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

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Epicurus

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain