Motivational Quotes

Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Bible

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

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

13.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

14.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

15.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

19.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

23.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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.

25.

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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

27.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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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

29.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

30.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

38.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

39.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

40.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

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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

43.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

44.

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

45.

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

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]