Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ken, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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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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

14.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

15.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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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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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

18.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

19.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

24.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

25.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

26.

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

27.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Allen, Woody

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Greene, Graham

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

Plato

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Montgomery, James

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

40.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

45.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Auerbach, Red

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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49.

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

Macdonald, George

50.

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

Palmerston, Lord