Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Epictetus

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

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

Dryden, John

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Landor, Walter Savage

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

11.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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 Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

21.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

22.

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

Marvell, Andrew

23.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

24.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

25.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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26.

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

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27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

29.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

33.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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.

35.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

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

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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39.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

45.

'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

46.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.