Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Mann, Thomas

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

10.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

12.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Ken, Thomas

19.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

22.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

29.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

31.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

32.

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.

33.

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

Palmerston, Lord

34.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

35.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

36.

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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

39.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

41.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

42.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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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

47.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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