Motivational Quotes

Death

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

Dryden, John

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

11.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

12.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Epicurus

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Forster, Edward M.

27.

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

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

Mitford, William

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

33.

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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

A. Sachs

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Epictetus

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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

42.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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