Motivational Quotes

Death

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

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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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

11.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

12.

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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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Barker, Clive

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

John Scalzi

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'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

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bible

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

Horace

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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