Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Jefferson, Joseph

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Milton, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

Eliot, George

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

Palmerston, Lord

10.

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.

11.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

19.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

22.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Craig Volk

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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

35.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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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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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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'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

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia