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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Bayly, Joseph

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

Stephanie Klein

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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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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

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bible

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Fielding, Henry

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Becht, Ben

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Epicurus

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i