Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Woody Allen

11.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

12.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

14.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

16.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

17.

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

Bryant, William C.

18.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

19.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

20.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

24.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

25.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

35.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Young, Edward

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Craig Volk

43.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

44.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

45.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

48.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sophocles

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

Gide, Andre