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 gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hoffer, Eric

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Miller, Joaquin

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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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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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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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Bertolt Brecht

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, 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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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.

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bible

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Heidegger, Martin

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bronte, Emily

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hook, Sydney

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De