Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thrale, Hester i

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Fielding, Henry

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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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

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

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Bertolt Brecht

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

William Shakespeare

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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