Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Nepos, Cornelius

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

10.

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

11.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hermes, Georg

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Young, Edward

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

22.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

31.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

40.

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

Berra, Yogi

41.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

42.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

Bible

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Gide, Andre

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