Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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

Sophocles

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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.

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Woody Allen

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

Craig Volk

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

37.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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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

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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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

44.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Hamilton, Hugh