Motivational Quotes

Death

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Craig Volk

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]

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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 is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Farber, Dave

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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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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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