Motivational Quotes

Death

I am not the least afraid to die.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Epicurus

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dryden, John

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

10.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

12.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

13.

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

14.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

25.

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

26.

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

27.

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

Edith Sitwell

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

David Assael

30.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

31.

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

Bayly, Joseph

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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

36.

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

38.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

39.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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