Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Craig Volk

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Randy K. Milholland

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Butler, Samuel

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Epicurus

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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

Plato

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Johnny Carson

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider