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

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

Guthrie, Arlo

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bright, Grant M.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bayly, Joseph

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Duffecy, James

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Macdonald, George

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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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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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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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 the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Bible

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

43.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De