Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Leonardo da Vinci

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

11.

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

Keats, John

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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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.

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Bryant, William C.

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Bagnold, Enid

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

Frida Kahlo

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Hazlitt, William

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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