Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

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

Plato

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Canetti, Elias

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Epicurus

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

13.

'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

14.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

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

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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

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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

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

22.

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

25.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

27.

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.

28.

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

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

31.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

39.

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

Picabia, Francis

40.

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

42.

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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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

47.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

49.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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