Motivational Quotes

Death

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

10.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Craig Volk

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

28.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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

Farber, Dave

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre