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

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Epicurus

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

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

Bible

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

10.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

11.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Montgomery, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hermes, Georg

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

19.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

20.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

23.

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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

25.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

26.

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

Bagnold, Enid

27.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

28.

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.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Euripides

32.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

33.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

35.

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

Horace

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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

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

Pamela Ribon

38.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

40.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye