Motivational Quotes

Death

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Johnny Carson

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Guthrie, Arlo

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Buffett, Jimmy

10.

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

11.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

12.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Craig Volk

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Allen, Woody

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Gide, Andre

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

29.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

34.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Barker, Clive

42.

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

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

Woody Allen

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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

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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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He would make a lovely corpse.