Motivational Quotes

Death

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Death

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mitford, William

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Diderot, Denis

10.

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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Plato

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Plato

17.

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

18.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

19.

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

Frida Kahlo

20.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

21.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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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

37.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

Keats, John

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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

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

A. Sachs

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce