Motivational Quotes

Death

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Death

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Auerbach, Red

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

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

11.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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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

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

Bible

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Montgomery, 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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

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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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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hook, Sydney

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Woody Allen

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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

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat