Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

William Shakespeare

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Donne, John

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

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.

'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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Mitford, William

12.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

18.

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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

28.

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

Palmerston, Lord

29.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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

35.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Euripides

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

45.

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.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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

50.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre