Motivational Quotes

Death

An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Death

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

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

Palmerston, Lord

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Plato

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

10.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

11.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

38.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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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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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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