Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Sophocles

'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

10.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

11.

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

Bhagavad Gita

12.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

15.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

16.

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

Buffett, Jimmy

17.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

18.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

20.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

22.

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

Keats, John

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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

24.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

27.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

33.

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

34.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

36.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

37.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

38.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Gray, Thomas

43.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

44.

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

Epicurus

46.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

49.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

50.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert