Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Donne, John

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

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

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

11.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

12.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

13.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

16.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

18.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

19.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

27.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

29.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

40.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

George Burns

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

50.

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

Euripides