Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Epicurus

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

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

Mitford, William

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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 should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Hermes, Georg

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

32.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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