Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Death

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Craig Volk

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

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

Epictetus

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

Bagnold, Enid

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Horace

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

28.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

29.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Greene, Graham

34.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

35.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

40.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Dryden, John

42.

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

Matt Frewer

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

46.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis