Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is landing on some distant shore.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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.

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

Woody Allen

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Bible

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Foster, John W.

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Manilius, Marcus

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

Milton, John

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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