Motivational Quotes

Death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Death

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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 never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

David Assael

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Edith Sitwell

10.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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 is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Craig Volk

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

18.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Barker, Clive

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

Gide, Andre

24.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Dryden, John

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

Eliot, George

28.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Farber, Dave

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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 only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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