Motivational Quotes

Death

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

12.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

20.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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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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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Bible

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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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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

40.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

42.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Shakespeare

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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

Gide, Andre