Motivational Quotes

Death

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Publilius Syrus

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Lee, Nathaniel

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bryant, William C.

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Young, Edward

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

26.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

28.

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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Dryden, John

39.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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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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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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