Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Lucan, F. L.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

William Shakespeare

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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 may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gide, Andre

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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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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.