Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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]

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Horace

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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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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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

17.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

20.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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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.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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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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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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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

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

Craig Volk

34.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

35.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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