Motivational Quotes

Death

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George Burns

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

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

Sophocles

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Horace

11.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

13.

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.

14.

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

Lucan, F. L.

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

17.

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

David Assael

18.

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

Montgomery, James

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

24.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

30.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

31.

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

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

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

Milton, John

35.

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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Bayly, Joseph

44.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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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