Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pamela Ribon

10.

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

11.

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

David Assael

12.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hook, Sydney

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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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

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Johnny Carson

28.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Woody Allen

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord