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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Plato

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

Barker, Clive

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

Beaumont, Francis

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Epicurus

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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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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Farber, Dave

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Pamela Ribon

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Woody Allen

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.