Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Matt Frewer

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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

Berra, Yogi

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Canetti, Elias

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Gide, Andre

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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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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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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