Motivational Quotes

Death

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

- Hook, Sydney

Best Quotes about Death

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Chandler, Raymond

10.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

13.

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

14.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

15.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

16.

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

17.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

20.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

21.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

22.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

24.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

27.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

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

30.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Woody Allen

32.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

33.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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 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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Ann Radcliffe

41.

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

Heidegger, Martin

42.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Publilius Syrus

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]