Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

10.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

14.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

18.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

David Assael

21.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

25.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

27.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

28.

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

Palmerston, Lord

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

32.

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

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

35.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

37.

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

40.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

43.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

44.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

45.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus