Motivational Quotes

Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Luther, Martin

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Darrow, Clarence

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Auden, W. H.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Keats, John

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

Hugh Elliott

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

21.

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Addison, Joseph

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Broch, Hermann

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

Fielding, Henry

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]

Bible

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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Heidegger, Martin

33.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

34.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Becht, Ben

40.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

41.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hauer, Rutger

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

Young, Edward

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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