Motivational Quotes

Death

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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

Havner, Vance

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

10.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

19.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

27.

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

Ann Radcliffe

28.

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

Macdonald, George

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

30.

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

Dryden, John

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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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

33.

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

34.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A. Sachs

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

Eliot, George

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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

40.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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

Lee, Nathaniel

42.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

43.

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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

Addison, Joseph

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Canetti, Elias

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody