Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Death

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

Randy K. Milholland

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Bacon, Francis

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Aaron McGruder

11.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

18.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Buffett, Jimmy

21.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

William Shakespeare

24.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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

26.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

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

28.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

34.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

37.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Butler, Samuel

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

50.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George