Motivational Quotes

Death

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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.

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

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

William Shakespeare

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

11.

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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

14.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

18.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

29.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Mitford, William

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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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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

33.

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

Edith Sitwell

34.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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

40.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Becht, Ben

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Hazlitt, William

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs