Motivational Quotes

Death

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

- Matt Frewer

Best Quotes about Death

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

Havner, Vance

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Becht, Ben

14.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

17.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

18.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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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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

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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

25.

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

Hook, Sydney

26.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

27.

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

28.

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

30.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

32.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

33.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Woody Allen

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

40.

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

Pamela Ribon

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Gray, Thomas

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George