Motivational Quotes

Death

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Allen, Woody

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

10.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

11.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

16.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

17.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

23.

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

Bible

24.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Woody Allen

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

A. Sachs

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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

42.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bible

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

48.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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