Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

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

Pamela Ribon

12.

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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Publilius Syrus

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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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

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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

A. Sachs

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Bacon, Francis

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph