Motivational Quotes

Death

dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

- Plath, Sylvia

Best Quotes about Death

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bright, Grant M.

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Jefferson, Joseph

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

Plato

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

Epicurus

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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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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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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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]

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Publilius Syrus

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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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

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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