Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

11.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

14.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bible

16.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.

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.

18.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

19.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

21.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

23.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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

25.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

26.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

32.

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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

37.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

40.

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

Sophocles

41.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Frost, Robert

45.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

47.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

49.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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