Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

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

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Milton, John

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

10.

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

11.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

12.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

13.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

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

Ken, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

19.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Auerbach, Red

21.

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

22.

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

23.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

26.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

29.

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

31.

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

Bright, Grant M.

32.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

33.

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

Marvell, Andrew

34.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

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

Duffecy, James

37.

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

Farber, Dave

38.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Horace

45.

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

46.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

47.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

48.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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