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

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Allen, Woody

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Haracourt, Edmond

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

Duffecy, James

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dryden, John

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

28.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diderot, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Jefferson, Joseph

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Moody, Dwight L.

47.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bagnold, Enid

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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