Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Death

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

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Woody Allen

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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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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.

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Macdonald, George

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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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

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Gide, Andre

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!