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

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

Mitford, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Euripides

10.

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

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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

Allen, Woody

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

Dickinson, Emily

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Lewis, C. S.

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Bible

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

30.

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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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

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

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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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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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

Oscar Wilde

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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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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

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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 the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.