Motivational Quotes

Death

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Horace

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montgomery, James

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

26.

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

Ann Radcliffe

27.

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

Bible

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

30.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Forster, Edward M.

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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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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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

44.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible

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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

49.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

50.

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