Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

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

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

12.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

16.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

17.

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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

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

Camus, Albert

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

32.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Carson, Johnny

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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