Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Bible

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

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Randy K. Milholland

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hermes, Georg

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bronte, Emily

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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Epicurus

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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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

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Bible

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.