Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Bronte, Emily

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Allen, Woody

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]

Bible

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

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

Gide, Andre

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

10.

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.

11.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

14.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

18.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Bible

21.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

22.

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

Matt Frewer

23.

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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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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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

28.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

29.

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

Pamela Ribon

30.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

33.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

34.

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

Epicurus

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sophocles

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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

39.

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

40.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

41.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

42.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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

46.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

49.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John