Motivational Quotes

Death

See in what peace a Christian can die.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Death

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Bagnold, Enid

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Miller, Henry

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

11.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Keats, John

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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

18.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

23.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Camus, Albert

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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

31.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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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

33.

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

34.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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

Picabia, Francis

38.

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

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

Horace

40.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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

Jefferson, Joseph

43.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

48.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, 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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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