Motivational Quotes

Death

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Charles II

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

William Shakespeare

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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.

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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Picabia, Francis

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

22.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Dryden, John

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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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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, 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

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

Bible

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a loss of time.