Motivational Quotes

Death

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

- Hamilton, Hugh

Best Quotes about Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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 is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Dryden, John

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

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Euripides

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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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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

20.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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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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'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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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

Keats, John

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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

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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

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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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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Epicurus

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

Samuel Goldwyn