Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Milton, John

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

21.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Allen, Woody

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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'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

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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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 strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Farber, Dave

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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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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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