Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Young, Edward

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

10.

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

11.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

13.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

14.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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

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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

21.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

25.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

31.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

34.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

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

Ken, Thomas

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

43.

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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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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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.