Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Horace

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Foster, John W.

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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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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

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

16.

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.

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Keats, John

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Matt Frewer

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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 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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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.