Motivational Quotes

Death

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

'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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Huxley, Aldous

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

Foster, John W.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Alsop, Steward

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

Woody Allen

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

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

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Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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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]

Bible

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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

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

John Scalzi

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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

James, Alice

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Meredith, George

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bacon, Francis

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Woody Allen

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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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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Donne, John

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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'Tis after death that we measure men.

Hope, James Barron

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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.

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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus