Motivational Quotes

Death

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

- Philip II

Best Quotes about Death

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

Frost, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

11.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

15.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

19.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bhagavad Gita

21.

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 have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

25.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Milton, 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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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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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

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

39.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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

Matt Frewer

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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

Lucan, F. L.

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