Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Death

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

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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 hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bible

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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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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Woody Allen

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Hook, Sydney

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These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

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

Bayly, 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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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.