Motivational Quotes

Death

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Luther, Martin

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

Byron, Lord

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Guthrie, Arlo

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Keats, John

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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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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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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ann Radcliffe

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

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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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lois McMaster Bujold