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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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.

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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

Thrale, Hester i

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Matt Frewer

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Foster, John W.

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

Bible

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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

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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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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Hoffer, Eric

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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

Epicurus

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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

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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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