Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Craig Volk

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

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

William Shakespeare

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Allen, Woody

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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.

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Plato

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

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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

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Mann, Thomas

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider