Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Death

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

Charles II

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

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

10.

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.

11.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

12.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

13.

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

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

15.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

16.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

21.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Woody Allen

24.

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

Frida Kahlo

25.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

26.

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

Horace

27.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

28.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

Ken, Thomas

35.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

36.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bayly, Joseph

42.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

44.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

45.

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

Dryden, John

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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