Motivational Quotes

Death

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

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

Eliot, George

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Woody Allen

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Young, Edward

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Montgomery, James

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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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

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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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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Bible

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi