Motivational Quotes

Death

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

- Charles II

Best Quotes about 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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

10.

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

11.

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

Mitford, William

12.

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

13.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

14.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

15.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

17.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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.

19.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Mann, Thomas

22.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

24.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

25.

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

Thrale, Hester i

27.

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

Allen, Woody

28.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

35.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

38.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

40.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

41.

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

Canetti, Elias

42.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

45.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Plato

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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.