Motivational Quotes

Death

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

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Best Quotes about Death

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

Bible

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

Donne, John

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bayly, Joseph

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Plato

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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Euripides

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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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

Epicurus

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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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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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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

Becht, Ben

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

Young, Edward

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

Thrale, Hester i

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Healey, Thomas F.

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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

37.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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 a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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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.