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

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Dryden, John

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

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

Frida Kahlo

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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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 ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Beaumont, Francis

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Duffecy, James

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Euripides

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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