Motivational Quotes

Death

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Death

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

'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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Dryden, John

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Becht, Ben

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

10.

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

Plato

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

16.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

19.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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