Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

'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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

10.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

12.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

13.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

14.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

15.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Hook, Sydney

17.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

20.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

22.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

23.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

24.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

25.

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

Woody Allen

26.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

28.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

34.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

40.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

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

Foster, John W.

43.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Milton, John

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

47.

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

Plato

49.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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