Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Death

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Duffecy, James

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

10.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

Canetti, Elias

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

16.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

19.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

23.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Epicurus

26.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

27.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

28.

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

Bright, Grant M.

29.

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

30.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

31.

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

Miller, Joaquin

32.

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

33.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

35.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

36.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

43.

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

Marvell, Andrew

44.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

45.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

46.

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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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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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.

49.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

50.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De