Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dryden, John

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

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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

Horace

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

11.

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

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

16.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

20.

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

21.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

24.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

25.

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

Duffecy, James

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

29.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

32.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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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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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

38.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

40.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

48.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

49.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!