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

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

Woody Allen

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Aaron McGruder

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

18.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

24.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

29.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

30.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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

Randy K. Milholland

34.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

35.

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

Farber, Dave

36.

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

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

38.

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

39.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

40.

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]

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41.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

45.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

46.

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

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

48.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

50.

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