Motivational Quotes

Death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

- Mackay, Charles

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montgomery, James

10.

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

11.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

12.

'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

13.

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

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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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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Duffecy, James

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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 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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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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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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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

42.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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