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

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

David Assael

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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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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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

12.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

18.

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

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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

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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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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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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 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

33.

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

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

Gide, Andre

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Publilius Syrus

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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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