Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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.

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.

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

Bhagavad Gita

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Bertolt Brecht

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

15.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

16.

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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

18.

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

Randy K. Milholland

19.

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

Keats, John

20.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

21.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

22.

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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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

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

26.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Bryant, William C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

33.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

36.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.