Motivational Quotes

Death

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Death

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

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

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Keats, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Marvell, Andrew

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

Milton, John

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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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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

15.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Horton, Doug

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

Manilius, Marcus

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Gurdjieff, George

28.

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

Bible

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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 a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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

Frida Kahlo

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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.