Motivational Quotes

Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

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.

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Stephanie Klein

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

10.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becht, Ben

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

20.

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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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

28.

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

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Foster, John W.

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

34.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

35.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Camus, Albert

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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'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

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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