Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Donne, John

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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 feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Edith Sitwell

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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