Motivational Quotes

Death

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Death

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Ken, Thomas

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

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

Publilius Syrus

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

10.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

11.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Luther, Martin

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Milton, John

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Greene, Graham

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Plato

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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

38.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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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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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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]

Bible

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

Hamilton, Hugh

49.

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

50.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De