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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Randy K. Milholland

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

10.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnny Carson

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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

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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

Havner, Vance

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Eliot, George

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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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

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Becht, Ben

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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.

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Hoffer, Eric