Motivational Quotes

Death

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Farber, Dave

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buffett, Jimmy

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Craig Volk

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Horace

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Camus, Albert

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

41.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott