Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Miller, Joaquin

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bagnold, Enid

13.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Stephanie Klein

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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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 the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Plato

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

27.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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

Horace

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ken, Thomas

34.

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.

35.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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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, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epicurus

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

Bible

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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