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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Randy K. Milholland

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

13.

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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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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

20.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

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

Bryant, William C.

25.

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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

Craig Volk

29.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

32.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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

Pamela Ribon

35.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Bagnold, Enid

37.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

39.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

40.

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

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

Bible

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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'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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Picabia, Francis

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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.