Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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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

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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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]

Bible

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Haracourt, Edmond

39.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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

Marvell, Andrew

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron