Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Pamela Ribon

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Becht, Ben

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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

Dryden, John

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

14.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Frida Kahlo

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous