Motivational Quotes

Death

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Allen, Woody

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Macdonald, George

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Picabia, Francis

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Only the young die good.