Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Death

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dryden, John

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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.

Antonin Artaud

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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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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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

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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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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

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Barker, Clive

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Woody Allen

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Milton, John

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

Pamela Ribon

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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

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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.