Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Auerbach, Red

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

David Assael

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

'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

15.

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

Cocteau, Jean

16.

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

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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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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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

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

28.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Epictetus

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

William Shakespeare

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Epicurus

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

Horace

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

40.

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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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

45.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Camus, Albert

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

49.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bronte, Emily