Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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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

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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

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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

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Mann, Thomas

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Butler, Samuel

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Manilius, Marcus

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

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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 a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Dryden, John

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Allen, Woody

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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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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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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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

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift