Motivational Quotes

Death

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

- Stephanie Klein

Best Quotes about Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Pamela Ribon

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

Craig Volk

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Lee, Nathaniel

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

11.

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

12.

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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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 but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

19.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

22.

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.

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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

24.

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

25.

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

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

27.

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

28.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

29.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

31.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

34.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

35.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

37.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

38.

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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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

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

Bagnold, Enid

43.

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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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 a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

48.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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

50.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen