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

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

Milton, John

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Dryden, John

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Nepos, Cornelius

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Allen, Woody

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

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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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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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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

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

Sophocles

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

Donne, John

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.