Motivational Quotes

Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Foster, John W.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

10.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

20.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

21.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Berra, Yogi

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

30.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

32.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

34.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Gide, Andre

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

Bronte, Emily

38.

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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

41.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

42.

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

Macdonald, George

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

Epicurus

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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?