Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Johnny Carson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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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

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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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]

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25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

29.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Duffecy, James

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.