Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

11.

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

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Epicurus

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Butler, Samuel

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

34.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

35.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Duffecy, James

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

39.

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

40.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

42.

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

43.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

45.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Dyer, Wayne

48.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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.

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry