Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Durrell, Lawrence

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Craig Volk

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Byron, Lord

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A. Sachs

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

24.

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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

41.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.