Motivational Quotes

Death

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Bayly, Joseph

11.

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

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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.

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Allen, Woody

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Ken, Thomas

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Butler, Samuel

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

Woody Allen

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

Macarthur, Douglas

35.

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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Bible

44.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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 pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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