Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

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

Ann Radcliffe

12.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

13.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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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

19.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

20.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

35.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

37.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

38.

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

Duffecy, James

39.

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

Cocteau, Jean

40.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

41.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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