Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

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

Nepos, Cornelius

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

11.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

15.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

16.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

Ann Radcliffe

21.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Milton, John

24.

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

Haracourt, Edmond

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

27.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

28.

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

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

30.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

31.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

32.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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 always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

40.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

41.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

48.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

A. Sachs

50.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous