Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Aaron McGruder

Best Quotes about Death

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Mann, Thomas

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Butler, Samuel

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Berra, Yogi

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

13.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

21.

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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

24.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

25.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

26.

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

Addison, Joseph

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

30.

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]

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

Macdonald, George

32.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

39.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

44.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

49.

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

Dickinson, Emily

50.

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