Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Allen, Woody

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Milton, John

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Woody Allen

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Picabia, Francis

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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.

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

Lee, Nathaniel