Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Epicurus

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

10.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

12.

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.

13.

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Charles II

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

20.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

25.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Luther, Martin

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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Heidegger, Martin

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

40.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Horace

44.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

45.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

48.

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

Woody Allen

49.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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