Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

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

Aaron McGruder

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

10.

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

11.

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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

13.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Bible

25.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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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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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

35.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

George Burns

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas