Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Death

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

Oscar Wilde

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Dyer, Wayne

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

William Shakespeare

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

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

Bagnold, Enid

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Barker, Clive

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

Woody Allen

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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

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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]

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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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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Foster, John W.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Epicurus

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Euripides

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Butler, Samuel

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Plato

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

Allen, Woody

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

Fielding, Henry

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

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