Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

John Scalzi

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Heidegger, Martin

11.

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

Woody Allen

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

15.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

19.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

25.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

33.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

34.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

35.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

46.

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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Pamela Ribon

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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