Motivational Quotes

Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Berra, Yogi

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Farber, Dave

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