Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Woody Allen

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Edith Sitwell

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

14.

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

Farber, Dave

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Duffecy, James

18.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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.

27.

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

Frida Kahlo

28.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

30.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

33.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

34.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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

48.

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

Bagnold, Enid

49.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

50.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde