Motivational Quotes

Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Camus, Albert

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, Woody

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Havner, Vance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Matt Frewer

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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

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Milton, John

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epicurus

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

Duffecy, James

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