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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Camus, Albert

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hazlitt, William

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Keats, John

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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bible

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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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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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

28.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Barker, Clive

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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