Motivational Quotes

Death

The fear of death is worse than death.

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Death

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius, Marcus

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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]

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11.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

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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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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Mackay, Charles

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

Bryant, William C.

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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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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 is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.

Ken, Thomas

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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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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

Belloc, Hilaire

35.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

A. Sachs

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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 a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Man, Paul De

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

Foster, John W.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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