Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Mitford, William

Best Quotes about Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

10.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Plato

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Buffett, Jimmy

15.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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

Bible

19.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

20.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

22.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Ann Radcliffe

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Frost, Robert

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

Addison, Joseph

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice