Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Berra, Yogi

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Matt Frewer

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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.

11.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

25.

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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

33.

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

Farber, Dave

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Charles II

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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.