Motivational Quotes

Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

- Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Sophocles

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

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

10.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

11.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

15.

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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

17.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

19.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

22.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

24.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

25.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Johnny Carson

28.

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

29.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

30.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

35.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

36.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

42.

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

43.

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

Bronte, Emily

44.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Pamela Ribon

46.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas