Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Pamela Ribon

Best Quotes about Death

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bronte, Emily

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Epicurus

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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 that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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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

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Edith Sitwell

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

A. Sachs

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

Bayly, Joseph

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Addison, Joseph

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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