Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Matt Frewer

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

11.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

12.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Woody Allen

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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

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Craig Volk

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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 cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

33.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

34.

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

35.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Craig Volk

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah