Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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

A. Sachs

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Picabia, Francis

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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

Camus, Albert

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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