Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Eliot, George

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Dryden, John

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Mann, Thomas

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Horace