Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dryden, John

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Forster, Edward M.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

12.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

19.

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

Milton, John

20.

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

Gray, Thomas

21.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

22.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Barker, Clive

24.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

25.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

34.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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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

39.

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

Woody Allen

40.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

41.

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.

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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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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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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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