Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

George Burns

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Hoffer, Eric

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Carson, Johnny

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Horace

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Foster, John W.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macdonald, George

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Fielding, Henry

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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