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

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

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

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

'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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Palmerston, Lord

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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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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

Havner, Vance

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

Keats, John

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Eliot, George

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James