Motivational Quotes

Death

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

- Epitaph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Oscar Wilde

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

10.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

11.

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

12.

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

Horace

13.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

14.

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

15.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

20.

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

Bryant, William C.

21.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

24.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

25.

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

A. Sachs

26.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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.

28.

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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

31.

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

Craig Volk

32.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

33.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

34.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

35.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

36.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

38.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

39.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

41.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

42.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Matt Frewer

44.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

45.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

46.

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

47.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

48.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

49.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.