Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Bible

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

14.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Bible

19.

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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

21.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

22.

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

23.

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

Charles II

24.

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

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

Becht, Ben

27.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

28.

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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

30.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

32.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

37.

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

38.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

39.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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