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

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

10.

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

Plato

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

Eliot, George

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

14.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Charles II

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Keats, John

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Mitford, William

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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

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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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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Hermes, Georg

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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 have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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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.