Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Epicurus

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montgomery, James

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

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

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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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

19.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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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.