Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gide, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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

Frost, Robert

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

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

13.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

25.

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

Farber, Dave

26.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

27.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

28.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

30.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

31.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

32.

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

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

35.

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

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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

37.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

38.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

40.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

41.

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

Fielding, Henry

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

47.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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