Motivational Quotes

Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Stephanie Klein

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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.

Epitaph

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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