Motivational Quotes

Death

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Horace

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

Addison, Joseph

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forster, Edward M.

10.

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

Hermes, Georg

11.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Bertolt Brecht

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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.

20.

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

Barker, Clive

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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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.

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

Bryant, William C.

29.

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

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Publilius Syrus