Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Buffett, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Death

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

Macarthur, Douglas

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Aaron McGruder

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

Lucan, F. L.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Frida Kahlo

10.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

Marvell, Andrew

12.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

13.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

14.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

Palmerston, Lord

25.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Horace

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

Craig Volk

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Farber, Dave

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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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

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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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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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