Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Donne, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

13.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Palmerston, Lord

21.

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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Horace

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Epicurus

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

Bible

40.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Foster, John W.

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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

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas