Motivational Quotes

Death

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Death

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hermes, Georg

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Gray, Thomas

14.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

15.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

18.

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

Matt Frewer

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

Publilius Syrus

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

22.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Bayly, Joseph

28.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

29.

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

Dryden, John

30.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

31.

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

32.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

45.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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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

48.

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 gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.