Motivational Quotes

Death

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

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Best Quotes about Death

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Becht, Ben

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Woody Allen

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

Donne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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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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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Milton, John

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Horace

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

31.

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

Foster, John W.

33.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Frida Kahlo

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

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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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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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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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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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

Duffecy, James

46.

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

Manilius, Marcus

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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