Motivational Quotes

Death

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Mitford, William

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

Randy K. Milholland

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Milton, John

11.

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

Bayly, Joseph

12.

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

13.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

20.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

26.

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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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Epicurus

30.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

35.

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

Johnny Carson

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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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

39.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin