Motivational Quotes

Death

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Death

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

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

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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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

11.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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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

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

Hamilton, Hugh

22.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Heidegger, Martin

25.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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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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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

35.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

39.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

42.

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hook, Sydney

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'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

50.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel