Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Matt Frewer

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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

Publilius Syrus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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

Montgomery, James

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

Bertolt Brecht

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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