Motivational Quotes

Death

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Death

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hoffer, Eric

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

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

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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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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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bryant, William C.

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Matt Frewer

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Life is one of the most important causes of death.

Kocher, Gerhard

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Einstein, Albert

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

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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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I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Young, Edward

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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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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Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider