Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Epicurus

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Butler, Samuel

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Horace

10.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

11.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

14.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

21.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

22.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

28.

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

Edith Sitwell

29.

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

Young, Edward

30.

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 eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

40.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Canetti, Elias

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Manilius, Marcus

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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