Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Edith Sitwell

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

11.

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

Woody Allen

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Montgomery, James

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

21.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Milton, John

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

Addison, Joseph

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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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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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

31.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Butler, Samuel

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

Miller, Joaquin

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

43.

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

Bible

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