Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Bertolt Brecht

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

11.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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

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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Montgomery, James

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Eliot, George

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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

Plato

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

31.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

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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'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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Bible

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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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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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 is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.