Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Barker, Clive

Best Quotes about Death

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Palmerston, Lord

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, John

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

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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

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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

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Plato

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gilmore, Gary Mark

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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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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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

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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

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

Foster, John W.

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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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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

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Byron, Lord

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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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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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

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