Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Matt Frewer

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Gide, Andre

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Heidegger, Martin

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

23.

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 world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

A. Sachs

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnny Carson

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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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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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin