Motivational Quotes

Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Auden, W. H.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Allen, Woody

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

10.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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11.

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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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13.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Bronte, Emily

15.

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

16.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

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

Palmerston, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Epicurus

21.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

22.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

23.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

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

25.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

26.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

27.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

34.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

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

Bayly, Joseph

36.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

37.

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

38.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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

42.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

44.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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