Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Death

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Cocteau, Jean

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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.

14.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

15.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

17.

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

18.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

25.

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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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

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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

28.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Sophocles

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Epicurus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.