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

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

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

A. Sachs

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

Dickinson, Emily

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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 words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Hook, Sydney

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gide, Andre

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Milton, John

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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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