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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

Montgomery, James

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

Heidegger, Martin

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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

Buffett, Jimmy

18.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Mann, Thomas

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

27.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

34.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

40.

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

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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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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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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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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 doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.