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

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

William Shakespeare

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Euripides

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

Nepos, Cornelius

10.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

11.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

13.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

Bible

15.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

16.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

25.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

28.

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

29.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

30.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

31.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

40.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

41.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Barker, Clive

43.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

44.

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

Donne, John

45.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]