Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Belloc, Hilaire

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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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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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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

Macdonald, George

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bible

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

Pamela Ribon

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Montgomery, James

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.