Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

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

Camus, Albert

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Duffecy, James

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

Bible

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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

10.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

12.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

13.

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

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Beaumont, Francis

15.

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

16.

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

Bayly, Joseph

17.

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

Macdonald, George

18.

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

Bronte, Emily

19.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

20.

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

21.

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

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

24.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

26.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

27.

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

Gilmore, Gary Mark

28.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

29.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

31.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

40.

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

Woody Allen

41.

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

Ann Radcliffe

42.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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