Motivational Quotes

Death

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

Best Quotes about Death

Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bayly, Joseph

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

Euripides

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Farber, Dave

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

Woody Allen

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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

William Shakespeare

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

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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

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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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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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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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre