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

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Berra, Yogi

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Carson, Johnny

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

11.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

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

Bright, Grant M.

19.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

23.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

24.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

25.

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

Epicurus

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Woody Allen

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

30.

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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

32.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

33.

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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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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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

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch