Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

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

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

11.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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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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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

20.

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

Farber, Dave

21.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

22.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Matt Frewer

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Wilde

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pamela Ribon

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

George Burns

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.