Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Cocteau, Jean

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

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

A. Sachs

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Epicurus

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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]

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Leonardo da Vinci