Motivational Quotes

Death

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sophocles

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Epicurus

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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 more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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

28.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bertolt Brecht

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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.

33.

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

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Duffecy, James

36.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

Dryden, John

42.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Bible

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.