Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

12.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Bible

15.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

18.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Woody Allen

23.

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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

31.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

32.

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

Randy K. Milholland

33.

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

34.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

35.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

39.

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

Cocteau, Jean

40.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.