Motivational Quotes

Death

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Death

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

Keats, John

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dickinson, Emily

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Canetti, Elias

16.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Barker, Clive

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bayly, Joseph

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

24.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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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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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

33.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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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

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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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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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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