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

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Montgomery, James

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Havner, Vance

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

Farber, Dave

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

12.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

13.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Mann, Thomas

28.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

32.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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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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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

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Auerbach, Red

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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