Motivational Quotes

Death

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

- Nepos, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

Duffecy, James

11.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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 was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

24.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Heidegger, Martin

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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

35.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

42.

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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gray, Thomas

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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 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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dickinson, Emily

50.

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

Haracourt, Edmond