Motivational Quotes

Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Montgomery, James

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

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Hoffer, Eric

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Allen, Woody

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

11.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

12.

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

Chandler, Raymond

13.

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

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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 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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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

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

21.

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

Woody Allen

22.

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

Camus, Albert

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that 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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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

30.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

32.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

35.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

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 look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

45.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

46.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

47.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

48.

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

Epicurus

49.

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

Publilius Syrus