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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill, Winston

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Penn, William

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon, Francis

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Young, Edward

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

William Shakespeare

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Dryden, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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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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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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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell