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

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Young, Edward

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

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

Sophocles

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

Plato

10.

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

Beaumont, Francis

11.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

13.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

14.

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

15.

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

16.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

'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

19.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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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

21.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

22.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

25.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

27.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

29.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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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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.

33.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

34.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Epicurus

36.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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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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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Pamela Ribon

44.

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

Keats, John

45.

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

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

49.

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