Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

10.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

11.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

13.

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

14.

'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

15.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

Hook, Sydney

17.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

18.

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

Dryden, John

19.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

20.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Woody Allen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

27.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

30.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Keats, John

36.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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.

39.

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

40.

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

Diderot, Denis

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

42.

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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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

44.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Allen, Woody