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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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

Woody Allen

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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

Bible

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

28.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

30.

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

Plato

32.

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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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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

Young, Edward

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Sophocles