Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Death

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

10.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

14.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

16.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

20.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

21.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

Diderot, Denis

23.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

25.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

27.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

30.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

32.

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

Woody Allen

33.

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

Aaron McGruder

34.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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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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

39.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

40.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Forster, Edward M.

43.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

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

Craig Volk

46.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Johnny Carson

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To stop sinning suddenly.