Motivational Quotes

Death

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Plato

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

12.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

13.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

14.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Barker, Clive

16.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

17.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Matt Frewer

19.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

20.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

21.

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

Epicurus

22.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

23.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

24.

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

25.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

26.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

27.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

28.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

29.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

30.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

32.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

33.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

35.

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

Keats, John

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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

37.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Farber, Dave

39.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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

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

Marvell, Andrew

42.

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

43.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

48.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

49.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Guthrie, Arlo