Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Eliot, George

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Bagnold, Enid

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

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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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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Luther, Martin

20.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

21.

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

Euripides

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

Forster, Edward M.

23.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

24.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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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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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.

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

A. Sachs

31.

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

35.

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

Gray, Thomas

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

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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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.