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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

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

Horace

14.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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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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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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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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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

Matthew V. Lewis

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

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