Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Landor, Walter Savage

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

Matt Frewer

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

16.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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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

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

Montgomery, James

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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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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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

William Shakespeare

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

Bible

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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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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

Hermes, Georg

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hook, Sydney

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

Bible

49.

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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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew