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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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

14.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

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

19.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

23.

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

Cocteau, Jean

24.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

25.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

29.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

30.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

31.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

32.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

33.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

36.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

37.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

38.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

40.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

46.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

47.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

49.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset