Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Keats, John

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Allen, Woody

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Gide, Andre

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

21.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Addison, Joseph

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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 better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Johnny Carson

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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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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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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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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Beaumont, Francis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Young, Edward

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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 never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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