Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

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

Camus, Albert

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

10.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

11.

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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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

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

15.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Miller, Joaquin

18.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

19.

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

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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

21.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

22.

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

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Marvell, Andrew

25.

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

A. Sachs

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

29.

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

Barker, Clive

30.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Havner, Vance

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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

34.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

36.

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

37.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

38.

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

Carson, Johnny

39.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

43.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

44.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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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

47.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

49.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

50.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.