Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Thrale, Hester i

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chandler, Raymond

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Haracourt, Edmond

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

10.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

12.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

13.

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

Young, Edward

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

Charles II

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

18.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

19.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Keats, John

23.

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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Plato

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Bible

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Edith Sitwell

32.

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

A. Sachs

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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

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

35.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Cocteau, Jean