Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Butler, Samuel

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Dryden, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bertolt Brecht

10.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

11.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

12.

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

13.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

17.

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

Stephanie Klein

18.

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

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

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

Barker, Clive

22.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Randy K. Milholland

29.

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

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

34.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

35.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

36.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

45.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

Plato

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

49.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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