Motivational Quotes

Death

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Death

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

Woody Allen

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

Frost, Robert

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

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

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

Frida Kahlo

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

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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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There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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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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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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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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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Foster, John W.

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John