Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hook, Sydney

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Horace

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

Edith Sitwell

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Heidegger, Martin

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Woody Allen

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

22.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Farber, Dave

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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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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Johnny Carson

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

Cocteau, Jean

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