Motivational Quotes

Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Edith Sitwell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Woody Allen

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bryant, William C.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

31.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.