Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

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

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Butler, Samuel

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Havner, Vance

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Eliot, George

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Cocteau, Jean

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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.