Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Death

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

Keats, John

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

Miller, Joaquin

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

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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

Allen, Woody

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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.

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

Allen, Woody

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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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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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

A. Sachs

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

Butler, Samuel

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

43.

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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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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Woody Allen

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

Epicurus

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