Motivational Quotes

Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

- Healey, Thomas F.

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

'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

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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]

Bible

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

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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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

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Greene, Graham

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Woody Allen

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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 dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Epicurus

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Picabia, Francis

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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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