Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

Epicurus

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

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Farber, Dave

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

Horace

11.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

12.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

13.

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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

15.

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

16.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

19.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

20.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Bayly, Joseph

24.

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

Carson, Johnny

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Johnny Carson

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

38.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Heidegger, Martin

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

41.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.