Motivational Quotes

Death

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Death

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Durrell, Lawrence

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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

Bible

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Belloc, Hilaire

10.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

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

Fromm, Erich

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Montgomery, James

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Macdonald, George

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

25.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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

David Assael

39.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.