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

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

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

Auerbach, Red

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Epictetus

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Berra, Yogi

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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

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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

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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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Young, Edward

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Craig Volk

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Farber, Dave

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

Gide, Andre

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

43.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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.