Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

- Bayly, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Milton, John

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Allen, Woody

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Eliot, George

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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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