Motivational Quotes

Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Young, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Miller, Joaquin

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

10.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

11.

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

15.

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

Palmerston, Lord

16.

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

Bible

17.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

18.

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.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Epictetus

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

34.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

39.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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

Plato

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Fromm, Erich

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita