Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

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

Sophocles

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

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

Butler, Samuel

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Marvell, Andrew

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

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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

11.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

13.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

18.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Thrale, Hester i

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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.

21.

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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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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

27.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

33.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

34.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

35.

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

36.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

37.

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

38.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Charles II

41.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

44.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

49.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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