Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Farber, Dave

Best Quotes about Death

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

10.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

12.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

13.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

14.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Forster, Edward M.

19.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

John Scalzi

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

30.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

32.

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.

33.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

34.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

35.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

36.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

38.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

40.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

Foster, John W.

45.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Eliot, George

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.