Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Farber, Dave

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epicurus

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri