Motivational Quotes

Death

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Death

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

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

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

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

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Horace

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

Heidegger, Martin

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

Woody Allen

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

Greene, Graham

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Eliot, George

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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Diderot, Denis

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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]

Bible

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]