Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Death

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

Craig Volk

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Woody Allen

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

Horace

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Keats, John

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

Sophocles

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Palmerston, Lord

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Buffett, Jimmy

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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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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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bronte, Emily

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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