Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Death

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hamilton, Hugh

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

Montgomery, James

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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

Canetti, Elias

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Epictetus

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

Bayly, Joseph

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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

Donne, John

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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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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

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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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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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 infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Diderot, Denis

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

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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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We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

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To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Picabia, Francis

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bronte, Emily

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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