Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Keats, John

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Butler, Samuel

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Auden, W. H.

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bayly, Joseph

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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