Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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

Macdonald, George

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

Leonardo da Vinci

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

Duffecy, James

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Becht, Ben

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Eliot, George

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

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22.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Edith Sitwell

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Havner, Vance

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Palmerston, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.