Motivational Quotes

Death

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

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

Farber, Dave

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

Matt Frewer

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Butler, Samuel

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Milton, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

12.

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

Woody Allen

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

15.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

16.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

17.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

18.

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

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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

20.

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

21.

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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

26.

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

27.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

'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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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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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

33.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

35.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

36.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

40.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

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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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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

47.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.