Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Barker, Clive

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

David Assael

10.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

12.

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

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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

Frost, Robert

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

Plato

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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

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

Milton, John

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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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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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

Belloc, Hilaire

36.

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.