Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

13.

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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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

15.

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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Bible

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

20.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

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

23.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Woody Allen

34.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

35.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

36.

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

37.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

38.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

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

40.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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 call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

47.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

48.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

49.

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

Macdonald, George

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.