Motivational Quotes

Death

Only the young die good.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Heidegger, Martin

10.

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

11.

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

12.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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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

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

Epicurus

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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

22.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

25.

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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Belloc, Hilaire

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

32.

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

Plato

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

36.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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

Carson, Johnny

40.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

45.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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