Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bayly, Joseph

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Craig Volk

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron