Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Foster, John W.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Allen, Woody

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Publilius Syrus

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

10.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

11.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

15.

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

16.

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

Frida Kahlo

17.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Woody Allen

21.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

22.

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

23.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

27.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

28.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

29.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Butler, Samuel

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

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

Macdonald, George

39.

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

40.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

41.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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