Motivational Quotes

Death

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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.

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

Dryden, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

10.

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

11.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

12.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

21.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

22.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

24.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

25.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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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

28.

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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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

30.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lowell, James Russell

33.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

35.

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

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

38.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

39.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

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

42.

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Allen, Woody

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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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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

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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

Epicurus

47.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius