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

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

10.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

11.

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

Bryant, William C.

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

18.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

19.

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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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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

23.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

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

Stephanie Klein

32.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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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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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

38.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

42.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Horace

44.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

46.

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

Hoffer, Eric

47.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

48.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.