Motivational Quotes

Death

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Cocteau, Jean

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

10.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Randy K. Milholland

13.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

14.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

15.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

18.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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

20.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

Matt Frewer

22.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Horace

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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

31.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

33.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Carson, Johnny

36.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

42.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

44.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

45.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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

48.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

49.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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