Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bacon, Francis

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epictetus

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Hook, Sydney

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aaron McGruder

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

William Shakespeare

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Kocher, Gerhard