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

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Leonardo da Vinci

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

Sophocles

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

12.

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

13.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

15.

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

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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

18.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

21.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

26.

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

William Shakespeare

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

28.

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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

31.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

33.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

34.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

41.

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

Plato

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

Montgomery, James

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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.

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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