Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Death

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

Milton, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Randy K. Milholland

10.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

11.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

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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.

14.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

17.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

18.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

24.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

25.

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

Bayly, Joseph

26.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

29.

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

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

42.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

43.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

46.

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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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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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]

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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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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