Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Matt Frewer

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

'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

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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.

11.

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

Mann, Thomas

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

21.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

28.

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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

31.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

35.

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

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

37.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

45.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Keats, John

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