Motivational Quotes

Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Gide, Andre

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

16.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

17.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

18.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

19.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

20.

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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

25.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

28.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

29.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

30.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Sophocles

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

38.

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

39.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

40.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

42.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

45.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

46.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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