Motivational Quotes

Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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.

11.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

12.

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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]

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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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

35.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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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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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Moody, Dwight L.

42.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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