Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hermes, Georg

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

Bayly, Joseph

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

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

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Woody Allen

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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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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Stephanie Klein

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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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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham