Motivational Quotes

Death

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

William Shakespeare

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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

Epicurus

10.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible

11.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

13.

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

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Plato

21.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

28.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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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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

32.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

33.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

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.

35.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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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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

38.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

42.

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

Berra, Yogi

43.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

44.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

David Assael

47.

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

Young, Edward

48.

'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

49.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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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