Motivational Quotes

Death

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

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

Dickinson, Emily

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Foster, John W.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Epicurus

10.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

11.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

12.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

15.

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

Frida Kahlo

16.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

Byron, Lord

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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

24.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

25.

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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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

27.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

28.

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

Charles II

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gide, Andre

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

34.

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

Barker, Clive

35.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Edward

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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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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

43.

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

47.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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

David Assael

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?