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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Butler, Samuel

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

10.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

11.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

12.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

13.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

15.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

17.

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

Duffecy, James

18.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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

20.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

22.

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

Becht, Ben

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

Havner, Vance

30.

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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

32.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

33.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

39.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

43.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

47.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

48.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.