Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Greene, Graham

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Havner, Vance

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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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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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epicurus

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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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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Horace

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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

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark