Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Euripides

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Foster, John W.

16.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Auerbach, Red

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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

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

Plato

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Craig Volk

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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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

33.

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

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

Gide, Andre

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

36.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

38.

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

Frida Kahlo

39.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

45.

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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.