Motivational Quotes

Death

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Death

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fielding, Henry

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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

Canetti, Elias

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Frida Kahlo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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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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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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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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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

Bertolt Brecht

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barker, Clive

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

Dickinson, Emily

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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

Milton, 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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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

Publilius Syrus

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.