Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Barker, Clive

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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Horace

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picabia, Francis

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epicurus

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Montgomery, James

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