Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Epictetus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Sophocles

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Macdonald, George

10.

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

Mann, Thomas

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Marvell, Andrew

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'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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Duffecy, James

38.

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

Euripides

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

43.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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