Motivational Quotes

Death

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Thrale, Hester i

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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

A. Sachs

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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