Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Heidegger, Martin

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Only the young die good.