Motivational Quotes

Death

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

- Matthew V. Lewis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Woody Allen

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

10.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Darrow, Clarence

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

19.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Duffecy, James

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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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

28.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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

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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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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

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Pamela Ribon

44.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edith Sitwell

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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