Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Montgomery, James

Best Quotes about Death

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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

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

Bacon, Francis

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Bhagavad Gita

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Keats, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Plato

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ken, Thomas

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Allen, Woody

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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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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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dryden, John

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Euripides

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Horace

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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.

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De