Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

10.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

12.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

13.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

16.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

17.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Marvell, Andrew

20.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

21.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Addison, Joseph

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

31.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

32.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Oscar Wilde

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

39.

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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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

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Dickinson, Emily

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard