Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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

Fielding, Henry

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Frida Kahlo

12.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

13.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Thrale, Hester i

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

25.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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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

35.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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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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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas