Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Horace

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Milton, John

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

Plato

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

10.

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

Frida Kahlo

11.

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

12.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

13.

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.

14.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

16.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

17.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

18.

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

Duffecy, James

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

Sophocles

21.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

26.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

28.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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.

30.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

31.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

32.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

33.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Camus, Albert

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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

40.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

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

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

45.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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