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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

David Assael

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Mann, Thomas

11.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Allen, Woody

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Picabia, Francis

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Diderot, Denis

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Euripides

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Charles II

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dryden, John

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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.