Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Allen, Woody

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

Foster, John W.

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

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

10.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Euripides

13.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

14.

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

Chandler, Raymond

15.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

16.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

17.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

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

Charles II

21.

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

22.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

28.

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.

29.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

Bryant, William C.

31.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

32.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

34.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Bagnold, Enid

43.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

44.

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.

45.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Camus, Albert

47.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

48.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.