Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Duffecy, James

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

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

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.

11.

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

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

13.

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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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

22.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

28.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

29.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

35.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

36.

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

Darrow, Clarence

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Charles II

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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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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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

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew