Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Woody Allen

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

10.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

12.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

Horace

14.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

15.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

16.

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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A. Sachs

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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

Ken, Thomas

24.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

30.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

31.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

33.

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

Johnny Carson

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

35.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Luther, Martin

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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

38.

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

Milton, John

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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

40.

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

41.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

Eliot, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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

Greene, Graham

49.

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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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