Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Einstein, Albert

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

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

10.

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

Pamela Ribon

11.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

13.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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 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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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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.

29.

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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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Hook, Sydney

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

45.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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