Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

'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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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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 is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

William Shakespeare

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Eliot, George

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

Camus, Albert

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?