Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Death

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Heidegger, Martin

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bagnold, Enid

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

21.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.