Motivational Quotes

Death

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

- Jarman, Derek

Best Quotes about Death

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Bible

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Woody Allen

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Leonardo da Vinci

10.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

12.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Matt Frewer

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

22.

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.

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

27.

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

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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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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

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

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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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

41.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.