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

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

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Epictetus

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

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

Thrale, Hester i

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

15.

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

16.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

17.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Pamela Ribon

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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

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Forster, Edward M.

27.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

28.

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

Montgomery, James

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nepos, Cornelius

37.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

39.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Allen, Woody

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

44.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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