Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

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

Matt Frewer

15.

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

Keats, John

16.

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 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

18.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

19.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Plato

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

26.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

28.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

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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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

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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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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

37.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

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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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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

43.

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

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene