Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Camus, Albert

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

16.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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'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

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

Carson, Johnny

20.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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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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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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

25.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

26.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Matt Frewer

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

30.

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

31.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

32.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

33.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

34.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

39.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Palmerston, Lord

41.

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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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

44.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.