Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Canetti, Elias

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Publilius Syrus

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bryant, William C.

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plato

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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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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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James