Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Death

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

11.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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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 the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

18.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

19.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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

Eliot, George

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

Lucan, F. L.

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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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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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Pamela Ribon

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily