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 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

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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.

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

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Addison, Joseph

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Bright, Grant M.

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Berra, Yogi

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Foster, John W.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Plato

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Epicurus

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.