Motivational Quotes

Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Death

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

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Young, Edward

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Berra, Yogi

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Bible

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Charles II

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Pamela Ribon

18.

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

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

David Assael

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul 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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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

43.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Craig Volk