Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Euripides

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Manilius, Marcus

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

11.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

12.

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

Johnny Carson

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Berra, Yogi

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

22.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Edith Sitwell

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

28.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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

30.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Donne, John

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Miller, Joaquin

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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

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