Motivational Quotes

Death

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Matt Frewer

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

Woody Allen

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bayly, Joseph

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

15.

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

Fromm, Erich

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

29.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farber, Dave

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

40.

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

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.