Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Death

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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

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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

11.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

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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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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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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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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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

Dryden, John

40.

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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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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