Motivational Quotes

Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aurelius, Marcus

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

12.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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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

18.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Pamela Ribon

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Plato

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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

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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

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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