Motivational Quotes

Death

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

- Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Mitford, William

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

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

11.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

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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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

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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

16.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

17.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

18.

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

19.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

21.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

22.

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

Bright, Grant M.

23.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

24.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

25.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

26.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

27.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

30.

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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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

35.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

36.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

37.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

40.

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

Randy K. Milholland

41.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

42.

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

Picabia, Francis

43.

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.

44.

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

Woody Allen

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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

Plato

48.

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

Plato

49.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De