Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bayly, Joseph

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

10.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

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

Craig Volk

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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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Euripides

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily