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

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Dickinson, Emily

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

13.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Browne, Sir 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

18.

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

19.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

22.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

23.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

24.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

25.

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

26.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

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

Eliot, George

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

Miller, Joaquin

30.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Forster, Edward M.

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

39.

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

40.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

41.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Ken, Thomas

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Woody Allen

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De