Motivational Quotes

Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Becht, Ben

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Randy K. Milholland

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Edith Sitwell

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

11.

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

12.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Epicurus

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

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

20.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Fromm, Erich

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

25.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Montgomery, James

30.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Plato

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard