Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Bronte, Emily

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

10.

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

11.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

12.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

13.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

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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.

17.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

18.

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

Macdonald, George

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

21.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

22.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

Duffecy, James

27.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

29.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

30.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

37.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

38.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

45.

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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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