Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Keats, John

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Woody Allen

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cocteau, Jean

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

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

Ken, Thomas

13.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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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'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

27.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

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

Frida Kahlo

29.

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

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Lucan, F. L.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Farber, Dave

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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 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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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 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

43.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte