Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Craig Volk

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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

'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

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

Matt Frewer

10.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Woody Allen

12.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Bible

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Horace

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Milton, John

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

40.

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

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

Gide, Andre

42.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold