Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Hubbard, Kin

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

William Shakespeare

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Epicurus

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

Montgomery, James

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

Byron, Lord

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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