Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fielding, Henry

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Epicurus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

10.

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

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

12.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

14.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Miller, Joaquin

16.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

17.

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

Bagnold, Enid

18.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

21.

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

Lucan, F. L.

22.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

24.

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

25.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

26.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

27.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

28.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

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

31.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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.

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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

35.

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

Becht, Ben

36.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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

38.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

39.

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

Fromm, Erich

40.

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

Epictetus

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

42.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

43.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

45.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Greene, Graham

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

Ken, Thomas