Motivational Quotes

Death

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hoffer, Eric

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mitford, William

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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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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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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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

Euripides

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Fielding, Henry

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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

Pamela Ribon

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.