Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

John Scalzi

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Woody Allen

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Bacon, Francis

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bryant, William C.

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

24.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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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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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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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Hook, Sydney

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett