Motivational Quotes

Death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

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

Hook, Sydney

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Foster, John W.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Diderot, Denis

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bagnold, Enid

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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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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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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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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