Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Gray, Thomas

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

13.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

15.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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 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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Greene, Graham

24.

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

Euripides

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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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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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Macdonald, George

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death is the cure for all diseases.