Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Duffecy, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Oscar Wilde

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Gide, Andre

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Macdonald, George

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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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Only the young die good.